Something's changed? 🤔 Yes, yes! After more than five years, I've rebuilt the place, from scratch 🔥 But you know, with great power comes great responsibility, so please, before you proceed read the manual 📚 Otherwise, be safe, and enjoy 🖖
Things I've Written
A counterintuitive approach to living a good life
Published on February 10, 2019
The hidden forces that shape our decisions
Published on January 29, 2019
A great way to generate user insights is to look for hacks they come up with on their own to get the job done. This is exactly what Pansa is ultimately about: designing an explicit feature out my note-taking hacks.
Published on January 22, 2019
Published on January 13, 2019
When it comes to advising somebody, it is as important for the advisor to be knowledgeable and qualified, as is for the advisee to be ready to listen, ready to act.
Published on January 09, 2019
Introducing Magis 1.0, with a new name, continuous deployment, user authentication, real-time database... and an inconsequential, but exhausting data model refactor.
Published on December 12, 2018
After more than 300 commits and six months in the making, the new collado.io is finally live. Besides the announcement, this post should also serve as the must-read, cautionary tale for all the things that are still not fully baked.
Published on December 08, 2018
In this second attempt, I distill the problems behind the note-taking experience from a product perspective, rather than taking an unreasonably opinionated approach, as I did in the first post.
Published on November 21, 2018
Note-taking apps are frustrating tools when it comes to building long-lasting domain knowledge. While they are delightful input mechanisms, most still fail at postprocessing the information, connecting its content, and present it in the form of knowledge.
Published on November 16, 2018
The product story behind the major refactor to the Magis app (formerly Would You Rather), Udacity's React Nanodegree second project, based on React & Redux.
Published on November 01, 2018
Published on October 06, 2018
A retrospective of the first month of the sub3 marathon project. Despite it got off to a solid start, challenges around maintaining volume while pushing times and PRs down, still remain.
Published on September 24, 2018
Last year I set out to run a marathon in less than 3 hours and failed. This year I will reset my goal but also make a fun project out of it.
Published on August 20, 2018
After more than five years hosted at Squarespace, this very blog is taking its biggest leap forward and moving to its own, new place.
Published on August 17, 2018
A review of the Udacity React Developer Nanodegree, from a product manager (and developer aficionado) perspective.
Published on August 09, 2018
Winning the inner creative battle
Published on July 30, 2018
How the mere act of setting the mouse aside to the left of the keyboard completely changed the relationship with my computer, forever.
Published on May 30, 2018
Why I stuck with the DAND's monthly structure rather than switching to the updated term-based model.
Published on May 16, 2018
I went to the movies and left wondering whether it will become cheaper to recreate an entirely new world rather than fixing the one we live in.
Published on May 09, 2018
A review of the Udacity Data Analyst Nanodegree, from a Product Manager's perspective.
Published on February 04, 2018
At some point, any hard skill will inevitably become a commodity. The ability to adapt, retool and learn new things will become the keys to master your own professional fate.
Published on November 27, 2017
We care about our community to an extent other people would think we are insane. It has become a fundamental piece of our student experience and the key to having the best product.
Published on July 01, 2017
How I tamed the voice in my head, reduced stress without losing my edge, and found self-help that actually works — a true story
Published on May 03, 2017
40 lessons for a new kind of entrepreneur
Published on April 14, 2017
A path to profits, passion, and purpose
Published on March 09, 2017
Passion, craft, and enthusiasm are the required ingredients in order to build great things. The best way to nurture this mindset is to have these enthusiastic students sharing the same room.
Published on February 19, 2017
What if Apple became its own carrier and rolled out the next Apple Watch with a built-in, low power, worldwide cellular capabilities that would provide the device with an always-on connection.
Published on August 21, 2016
Despite having been pulled away from explicit design roles as my day job, I have always embraced design principles when making a product or a business decision.
Published on July 03, 2016
College incentives are completely misaligned because its success is not properly linked to student outcomes anymore. Rather, it has become a social apparatus to which students go because they just feel that they have to.
Published on June 26, 2016
When you start in a new job, most of the time, you pretty much don't know what you're doing. Yet this naive attitude is usually the one that turns what it would seem like a fool's errand into an amazing opportunity you can't miss on.
Published on June 15, 2016
Autonomous cars and its implications explained, from drivetrains, ownership to operations.
Published on June 04, 2016
Little changes can cause amazing outcomes. The last chapter of this story features three small tweaks I made to my phone settings, that have radically changed the way I interact with my digital life.
Published on May 31, 2016
This Saturday I will be enrolling the Ironhack Web Development program, and why everybody in a managing position, technical or not, should join, too.
Published on March 30, 2016
It's not a human move — Fan Hui said. We are teaching computers how to think.
Published on March 12, 2016
Chances are that sooner or later you'll need to deal with code or with someone who codes. The parallelism seems inevitable, learning how to program in the near future can be compared to studying English today.
Published on February 07, 2016
The Internet has flipped the advertisement industry in its head. Which in turn, has surfaced a plethora of market niches that were simply not available before, yet they remain to be addressed.
Published on October 10, 2015
After just twelve days, I traded a praised sabbatical for one of the most challenging opportunities I have ever been faced. I am joining Ironhack as the Campus Manager in Barcelona, which means setting up the entire city operations from scratch.
Published on September 28, 2015
The importance of acquired behaviors when launching a product is overlooked, it runs against innovation and creating new market opportunities. But there are hidden costs in reinventing the wheel: shaping new behaviors can be even more daunting than facing competition.
Published on April 12, 2014
Problems overwhelm us and we want to get them out of the way as soon as possible. Yet sometimes, a closer look, might turn them into growth opportunities and means to deliver amazing experiences.
Published on April 01, 2014
The ultimate raison d'être of iomando is as simple as the fact that we are replacing plastic for bits. That's what software does by definition, it enables and reaps the benefits of scale.
Published on March 16, 2014
iomando operates a double-sided business model that provides a classic markup sale for distributors, but also enables a SAAS to run on top — which was the result of several failed attempts to fit a software-based solution within a traditionally hardware-based industry.
Published on March 03, 2014
Introducing iomando Door Status, a new technology that will allow every admin to check, at any given moment, in real-time, their door status.
Published on February 23, 2014
While focus is usually perceived as a fundamental component to build a sustainable business in the long-term, when in survival mode, focus might only contribute to wreck you down.
Published on February 11, 2014
As we advanced on our journey we discovered new, initially invisible markets to serve, where our product was a better fit. The hardest part though was acknowledging that our initial product ideas were not optimal.
Published on January 23, 2014
Introducing iomando 2.0.1, the ~~not that~~ minor update that brings along push synchronization across the board. The feature that nobody will see, but everybody will notice.
Published on January 13, 2014
Introducing iomando 2.0, the product story behind its three most prominent and challenging features.
Published on January 07, 2014
Introducing iomando 2.0 hardware, with double relay bay to control up to four accesses, radio communications for mesh networking and GPS support.
Published on December 27, 2013
Introducing iomando 2.0, with a redesigned interface, passwordless login, support for multiple doors, location-based permissions and much more.
Published on December 12, 2013
I love cars, but getting rid of mine was probably the smartest, most gratifying decision I've made during my twenties.
Published on September 08, 2013
After my college years, these are some thoughts on the history and value of an Industrial Engineering degree.
Published on August 31, 2013
How we changed our pricing strategy in order to make both distributors and customers happy, while creating a sustainable business along the way.
Published on June 10, 2013
An original, unaltered replica of a post published on the official iomando blog that introduced iomando 1.1, with a faster and more secure open experience and a new mobile management tool.
Published on May 09, 2013
The reasons behind the controversial decision of using cellular technology — rather than Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, to power our IoT devices.
Published on April 02, 2013
Why subscription-based businesses promote the right incentives in order to deliver the best products and create healthier customer relationships.
Published on March 11, 2013
An original, unaltered replica of the very first post published on the official iomando blog that introduced iomando 1.0, the first version of the product.
Published on February 23, 2013
Most of our initial assumptions about iomando proved to be wrong early on. This is the story of how we turned the entire business model around and the lessons we learned while introducing the very first iteration of the product.
Published on January 15, 2013
The — overly simplified and opinionated — story of how iomando came to be.
Published on January 04, 2013